Who am I and what is FarrFeed?
I was born in Bryan, Texas on the day Nagasaki was nuked. The oldest of five children in an Air Force family that moved over 40 times before I graduated from high school, I’ve lived in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia, Germany, Texas (again!), Maryland, and New Mexico. Things I’ll never forget include the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, Yellowstone, Acadia, Big Bend, the Rocky Mountains, Taos Pueblo, and the fact that Jerry Garcia died on my birthday.
I’ve walked the streets of Abilene, Austin, Des Moines, Dubuque, New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, San Miguel de Allende, Chestertown, Baltimore, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Taos; worked as a college teacher, laborer, groundskeeper, office manager, cartoonist, songwriter, musician, painter, sculptor, Internet editor, Web designer, and columnist. I’ve been to operas and hoe-downs; seen Dylan, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash; and once watched Captain Sensible do an encore in the nude. I’ve capsized in the river, gotten sunburned on the beach, wandered in the desert, hiked in the mountains, dug myself out of the snow, seen Halley’s Comet, and gone loco in the woods. I’ve built my own boat and worn out at least two dozen cars. I have an analyst in Zurich, a graphic designer in Brisbane, two degrees, and most of my own teeth. The only computers I’ll ever use are made by Apple, and I’ve been married for nearly 30 years.
There’s more in the official bio. Like how I used to work for Applelinks and MacAddict, and how on my own I’ve launched ZooZone, Farr Site, WebFaust, GRACK!, FotoFeed, FarrFeed and more. What I do these days is write, publish digitally for the expanding ebook markets, and keep it rolling here at FarrFeed. I also take a lot of pictures, which you can see every day at FotoFeed. I’ve just written a book for Amazon Kindle called Taos Soul, and if you like that, you’ll love Buffalo Lights, my book about moving to New Mexico.
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Relevant Downloads & Pages
• Official bio (for press & PR use): PDF, 36KB »
• Comments (unsolicited praise from readers): PDF, 112KB »
• Clips (samples of print columns): PDF, 112 KB »
• Digital Potlatch (also see nav bar link)
• Zoo Pilot Publishing (books by John Hamilton Farr)
History, Specs, etc.
This site currently features a blog, audio, video, and a really cool feature called the Digital Potlatch (see sidebars, right). The blog began at Salon.com in 2002. In 2006, FarrFeed moved to the WordPress platform and was completely redesigned. That version of the blog continued until mid-2007, when the third version arrived. This is actually FarrFeed 4.0, introduced in March, 2009 and hosted at Brownrice Internet in Taos, NM (“blessed are the geeks, for they shall internet the earth”) — Oban, Vanessa, David, Dawn, and Jay are absolutely the best.
Content-wise, the posts here go back to March, 2006. I also saved all the decent posts from the Salon.com blog, and that’s four more years’ worth, if I ever get around to adding those to the database. All told, I’ve been blogging for a long time!
FarrFeed runs on the WordPress platform using the highly customizable Thesis theme by Chris Pearson. Want to try it yourself? Go here.
Technical Advisor
Special thanks to Michael Zerman, international Web marketing consultant based in Adelaide, Australia, for the best advice I’ve ever gotten: “Just DO IT!” (Thanks, mate!)
I blog about my experiences in Nature, very broadly speaking: living planet mystery tales. The orphic egg icon above sometimes shows up as a thumbnail on special posts. 
